Yet despite band tensions, management problems, lawsuits, record label limbo and a long disappearance, Tool picked up just where it left off on Sunday night at Hammerstein Ballroom, performing its slow, agonized, high-concept metal for a show that sold out its 3,600 tickets in a reported 60 seconds.
Wary of lawsuits, record companies waited for the technology to become more flexible.
Net income was $7.83 billion, or $1.41 a share, an amount that included after-tax charges for investment impairments of 53 cents, estimated expenses in connection with consumer class-action lawsuits recorded in the December 2001 quarter of 8 cents, and a one-time gain on the sale of Expedia, recorded in the March 2002 quarter, of 15 cents.
In the lawsuit, the record industry has already named Kazaa and Music City, asserting that the companies help people trade music free online.
In response to the lawsuit, Warlock Records filed their own lawsuit in an attempt to ensure the release of the record.
Eventually, Ms. Fitzgerald decided to file what could become one of the largest whistle-blower lawsuits on record.
But the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation now finds itself the target of a copyright infringement lawsuit after recording the opening of a shop in Manhattan controlled by the designer Peter Nygard.
Any likelihood of that lawsuit taking record-industry accounting practices to task were shattered when the band settled under undisclosed terms.
Kilroy described a substantial amount of routine procedure at Homan Square as part of a deposition for the ongoing transparency lawsuit concerning records from the warehouse.
Both are now facing lawsuits from record companies, and students say they are already looking for new services to take their place.
